Published July 9th, 2008, updated September 30th, 2008.
301 is an uri redirector. It allows you to create short links for complex web addresses. Just submit a longish uri at 301.sickos.org, and you will get a short link that points to the original address. You can pass this on twitter, in irc or whereever you want to avoid complex web addresses.
This service was inspired by tinyurl.com and monkey.org/sl. In contrast to their services, 301 comes along with full python source code. This give you freedom to run your own 301 service and adopt it to your needs. Get the source code at benjamin-schweizer.de/files/301/.
Today, I’ve found some time to play around with Yahoo! Pipes. Basically, it is a visual programming environment, that aims at dealing with XML feeds and other sources from the semantic web. You can use a visual editor (see screenshot) to add various sources and operators. You can filter, rearrange and combine various feeds and finally create a new one.
Because I use various Web 2.0 services like bookmarks.sickos.org (a del.icio.us clone), Google Reader, Flickr and others, I’ve many blog items at different locations. From there, I could write custom code to integrate these items with my blog or use some standardized technology. I’ve decided to use the latter, and this is where Yahoo! Pipes comes into the game. I’ve created a new pipe there and integrated the combined rss feed into my Wordpress blog.
Entropy is a password generator. It generates two kinds of passwords: i) low entropy passwords that humans can easily remember and ii) high entropy passwords as commonly used in stored sessions. The low entropy passwords are generated from the Basic English vocabulary by C.K. Ogdeni. The high entropy passwords are random alpha numeric passwords where similar looking characters are stripped.
This application is writte in Python and supports both, a CGI interface for your web server and a command line interface. From a security perspective, I strongly recommend the command line version after reading the source code.
Published February 29th, 2008, updated August 31st, 2008.
At sickos.org, Andreas and I run a copy of the social bookmarking software Scuttle. Basically, it is an open source implementation of del.icio.us (or at least, as delicious was back in 2006). Scuttle development has slowed down, but we keep up running this service and patch bugs every now and then. If you want to join us, read the documentation here and feel free to add your bookmarks there.
Published November 28th, 2007, updated March 7th, 2008.
The Web Watchdog notifies you when a website gets updated. Instead of continuously returning to blogs, forums or discussion boards, you can ask the Web Watchdog to do this for you.
Published December 28th, 2006, updated February 29th, 2008.
Shinypages is an easy to use publishing platform. It enables you to create instant websites, empowers your friends to contribute and limit access to the people that you want to view your pages. Both, an easy to use interface and latest Web 2.0 technology ensure that what you see is what you get.
Published November 16th, 2006, updated November 25th, 2009.
This is a plugin for the Munin monitoring system. It graphs the cache efficiency of your Squid proxy servers and shows nice graphs for average byte and request hits.
Published April 24th, 2006, updated February 29th, 2008.
This is a caching and scaling proxy for images that are accessible via http. It is designed for the use in weblogs where you want to refer to images on foreign hosts without the need of manual mirroring or scaling. After an initial fetch, the (scaled) pictures remain in the local cache directory. It is tried to reload the image when the cache expires, otherwise the old image is delivered.
Published October 5th, 2005, updated February 29th, 2008.
Preface
wp_flickr_sidebar is a plugin that shows a moblog in a WordPress sidebar. It can be configured to display any Flickr feed with a specified width and number of pictures. The plugin supports caching and resolution-dependent fetching.
Installation
Shorts steps for the impatient:
extract the files to the plugin directory (currently one file)
drop a copy of magpierss in /magpierss (or symlink it or fix the constants)
ensure that you have libgd2 and the php bindings installed
activate the plugin somewhere on the WordPress setup page
configure the plugin using the WordPress options dialog from within the admin menu
add <?php wp_flickr_sidebar_feed() ?> to your template/sidebar
If something went wrong (missing libs, wrong permissions, typos), you should see an error message as long as the bug is in stage 1. To see error messages in the standalone jpeg section, set this line as a comment:
// (header("Content-type: image/jpeg");)
When you’ve fixed your problem, come back here end tell us, please.
q: after commenting the header line, i see an error message that says there is no imagecreatefromjpeg()
a: install/update the gd graphics library and php bindings q: it does not work anymore a: flickr changed the uri schema, update to version 0.2
